unexpected compliment

[ricnak]

Good for you Joe. It feels good when it happens.

It does not happen to me often. My family is my only real audience. For me, it is usually is credited to the $$ spent on gear. I just hope that when I am dead they appreciated the odd nice photo of themselves growing up. Just like I appreciated the odd nice photo that my dad took of me.

h.

 

[Mr_Flibble]

When posting a gallery of a living history event I get the usual feedback of "Ooohs" and "Aaahs", mainly from the people who are in the photos.

The best compliments come from the few photographer friends who also give me the most meaningful feedback. 🙂

 

[lcpr]

A Getty photographer complimented me on my S/S'13 London Fashion Week coverage and went as far as saying that I'd probably be better than him with a few tweaks. Really made my day.

 

[shadowfox]

I joined a photography forum once (not this one, of course), and in my introduction I linked my website, a few days later I got a PM from a moderator stating that he checked out my website, just because he's curious and it's part of the rule to see if I'm a spammer or not.

He looked through my website, and he said he ended up spending an hour reading my (now 6 years old) journal entries. He truly admired my sticking to the style of photography that is not popular nowadays. And he called me "a true artist."

At that time I just thanked him and think nothing of it. But later I found out that this person is not one who gives out compliments and when he criticize a photograph, you can tell he's not mincing words.

So I felt rather special, for a while 🙂

 

[oftheherd]

Sure, happens whenever I show someone (new) my (new) pics. 😉

(Except when its my wife.)

Is your wife from Korea too? 😛

I usually get complaints of taking too many photos of the same thing, not taking complimentary photos of her, or something along that line.

A couple of days ago I took some photos of a pretty white flower from a plant that may go several years without blooming, and only blooms at night. She told me I should send it to a magazine. I'm savoring that for all it's worth!

Well when you do photograph her try to capture her "heart" because it sounds like she has a good one and it would probably make a good picture. Don't ask her just do it...

Joe, if you do that, and I think it would be neat. Please show it here. It might be easy knowing your friend as you do. But I am not sure how I would show someone's heart to someone who didn't know that person. Might even make a good w/nw thread.

Thanks for this one by the way. Good subject and point for all.